NEIL PEART Says His New Book Is For RUSH Fans And Non-RUSH Fans Alike
October 12, 2006Launch Radio Networks reports: RUSH drummer Neil Peart has a new book, titled "Roadshow: Landscape With Drums: A Concert Tour By Motorcycle", which is a chronicle of his time on the band's 30th anniversary tour across North America in 2004, when he rode his motorcycle between gigs, instead of getting on the tour bus with singer-bassist Geddy Lee and guitarist Alex Lifeson. The book is filled with anecdotes and stories of the road that are accessible even to people not familiar with RUSH's music and history.
Peart describes how he wrote to book to be of interest to non-RUSH fans as well as to the diehards: "I didn't want it to be just a book for RUSH fans. You know, as far as I was hoping from the writing of it you don't have to know anything about RUSH or about motorcycles or about rock music really to enjoy the stories. So I hope that those kind of anecdotes would kind of flesh it out, and also they portray different periods of our career too, what it's like to be a struggling young band and an opening act and traveling in a rental car and all that part of it."
"Roadshow" is Peart's fourth book, following 2002's "Ghost Rider: Travels On The Healing Road", and two from 2004 — "Traveling Music: The Soundtrack To My Life", and "The Masked Rider: Cycling In West Africa".
RUSH has been working on a new studio album that should be out next year.
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